Foundry Town (1962)

7.8/10 • 100 min • Drama

Overview

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Cast

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Jun

Mitsuo Hamada

Tsukamoto, Katsumi

Eijirō Tōno

Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)

Shoichi Ozawa

Tokuko Sugiyama

Tomi (Jun's mother)

Takeshi Katō

Mr. Noda

Tanie Kitabayashi

Ume

Kin Sugai

Miyo

Taiji Tonoyama

Matsunaga

Tomio Aoki

Worker A

Nobuo Kawakami

Detective

Akiji Kobayashi

Hei-san

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Tôgo

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